Sport Up A SV650s

[fizzwheel]

Sometimes, less is more...

Also what you doing in two years time with your SV ? Standard bike is going to fetch more than a heavily modded one as you are thinking of doing.

Sounds like the bike you are looking at already has some stuff on it, Undertray etc so just keep it simple. One of the sharkskins fairings I've seen does look good though, but as others have said painting it is going to be expensive. Unless you're handy with a spray gun. Prep work is everything though with spraying panels. You can make anything fit, if you are prepared to go all out on it. Bear in mind though that sometimes the race fairings are roughly finished and also the ones I've seen have been very thin. I'd be worried it was all going to vibrate itself to bits if used on the road.

I think what I'd be doing it trying to mock up something like how you think the bikes going to look in photoshop first to give yourself an idea of how it might turn out. Also dont cover the thing in stickers when you're done it just looks sh*t. I reckon the a good paint scheme can really finish a bike off well, if its done right.

At your age, I'd be staying away from performance mods, the insurance is going to cripple you.

thanks for the 2wheeljunkie idea i like the fairing on that. more of a gsxr look to it (without gsxr insurance ) i had also thought of bikes such as the vfr400 or rvf400 but next year i will be doing europe and need something that can still accomidate that. also i will not be 'stickering it up' in my opinion it looks tacky, i want plain black paintwork. thanks alot for the help!!!
this is the picture of the 2wheeljunkie street kit i have found
nice, what you guys and girls think?

[fizzwheel]

Oh, one more thing, try and go for something unique that nobodies done before. IMHO the whole "Rizla" things been done to death, but the black like you are thinking off oughta set that fairing off nicely.

Also try and keep the unique's or SV'ness about it, Dont make it look like a Gixer, it'll spoil it. Try and get something unique that at first glance nobody will recognise and it'll take them a minute of two to work out what it is.

Alot of the advice seems spot on so i dont really have much to add except....get some online quotations done with different companies to find out if the insurance is feasible for a heavily mod'ed bike with such a young(inexperienced) rider.

As people have said they may not touch you with a bargepole

If something sportier is what you want it may well turn out cheaper overall to pay more insurance and not enter the wallet black-hole that is modding!

what if i didn't declare my mods though
then again that makes my insurance invalid doesn't it?
also i have a friend that at 17 done the same thing as i am planning on he was paying £640 aprox.

[fizzwheel]

If you can't afford to insure the bike with modifications, then don't do the modifications in the first place.

TBH if you crash, most companies will only pay for the bike to be put back to standard anyway, however if its pinched and the mods you've done make it more desirable cosmetically wise, then you might find that the insurance comany may well refuse to pay out.

I'm not sure of exactual technicalities, In my opinion its best to declare it all and then you dont have to worry about it, if anything does happen.

Go for it mate,If you like it and think it'll look good do it.Don't worry what other people think of your bike,whats so wrong with making your bike your own? Far to many standard sv's about if you ask me And as for making it look like a gggsssxxxrrrrvvvvsssssrrrrrrrrr dont see the point myself there bloody everywhere millions of the things,be different

The SV is a great bike for two reasons IMO - It does most things well and there are enough mods to have it your way.

The fact they're cheap to buy and (shock!) even cheaper to insure is an aside. Which 50 did you have?

Straight line speed aside, last year, whilst I was Restricted, I used to keep up with a bunch of other riders. Their bikes include a Benelli Tornado, Ducati 996 and a Gixer 750. The SV is a lot ''Sportier'' than other bike riders think.

I'm never getting rid of mine, she'll be my track bike when her road days are over.

Doing the mods I did to my bike hardly cost anything once I resold the origonal parts!